Nikola, a Static Site and Blog Generator

In goes content, out comes a website, ready to deploy.

Why Static Websites?

Static websites are safer, use fewer resources, and avoid vendor and platform lock-in. You can read more about this in the Nikola Handbook.

It has many features, but here are some of the nicer ones:

Blogs, with tags, feeds, archives, comments, etc.
Themable
Fast builds, thanks to doit
Flexible, extensible via plugins
Small codebase (programmers can understand all of Nikola core in a day)
reStructuredText or Markdown as input language (also Wiki, BBCode, Textile, and HTML)
Easy image galleries (just drop files in a folder!)
Syntax highlighting for almost any programming language or markup
Multilingual sites, translated to 13 languages.
Doesn't reinvent wheels, leverages existing tools.
Python 2 and 3 compatible.

Assuming you have pip installed::

git clone git://github.com/ralsina/nikola.git
cd nikola
pip install .

Optionally (for markdown and lots of other features):

pip install -r requirements.txt

For even more stuff, like tests and very optional features:

pip install -r requirements-full.txt

For more information, see http://getnikola.com